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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Leadership, Truth, Lying

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• There is no god higher than truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Truth, Religion

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• Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

  Confucius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Buddhist

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  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Witty, Truth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.4, Publishdrive

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Peace, Fear

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Truth, Honesty

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

  Trust, Courage, Truth

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

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• The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

  Ann Landers

  Positive, Witty, Truth

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Truth, Business

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• Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Truth, Anger, Empathy

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• The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

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• Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

  John Milton

  Strength, Truth, Wind

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Perfection

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• The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Lying, Race

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Fiction

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• Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

  George Berkeley

  Truth, Science, Games

  'Siris' (1744) para. 368

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• When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Literature, Valuable

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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• Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1841). “The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...”, p.325

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